they know who i am. there is a side-by-side aspect to life here that s very unusual. very unusual here. it s mostly you can do whatever you want if you do it with good mappers. but it is a sort of a station of the cross for, you know, bad boys of cultures. rambo, iggy pop, the stones, guyson and burr 0 ghs writes about if. he was a jointer before he was a writer. as so many of us were. this is a place if you wanted to think of yourself as a writer, you would come here and somehow you were working with the romantic tradition. yes. burroughs said up front, to me a writer was someone who lounged around in a smoking jacket and caftan smoking a hash pipe or opiate pipe in a house littered with sleeping boys. or girls. to what extent did that world exist, and to what extent was that world created by the people who showed up with that